• Record Label: Caroline
  • Release Date: Jan 26, 2015
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Negative: 0 out of 18
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  1. Mojo
    Mar 19, 2015
    60
    Even if consistency isn't their bag, Pond have genius at their fingertips. [Apr 2015, p.96]
  2. Jan 29, 2015
    60
    In fact, so good-natured are the funtimes here that some listeners might find themselves craving a little more crunch.
  3. 55
    Despite strong results in the past, this time these elements have ultimately combined to make a sort of erratic psychedelic porridge; boring in more than a few places, and a bit much for anyone other than the genre's keenest fans.
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 43 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 38 out of 43
  2. Negative: 2 out of 43
  1. Jan 29, 2015
    6
    The leverage weights too much on the album shoving it to across galaxies of gripping metalized sounds that we were used to hear along theThe leverage weights too much on the album shoving it to across galaxies of gripping metalized sounds that we were used to hear along the best years of psychedelic rock but in no way that special. Yet contains esthetically pleasing passages more often than the albums before failed to secure. Full Review »
  2. Jan 28, 2015
    8
    I love how this album sounds like early psychedelic Pink Floyd. It's full of energy, funky textures, and is absolute sonic bliss. TheI love how this album sounds like early psychedelic Pink Floyd. It's full of energy, funky textures, and is absolute sonic bliss. The arrangements are somewhat all over the place, but if anything it makes for an interesting and engaging album start to finish. Full Review »
  3. Jan 28, 2015
    7
    For future reference Pond is far off reaching stardom. Still this album offers a build-up of explosive psychadelic textured flavours with eachFor future reference Pond is far off reaching stardom. Still this album offers a build-up of explosive psychadelic textured flavours with each one expressing itself in its own fetished manner spotlighting the incontrovertible best-of volume of the band. Sitting Up On Our Crane is perhaps the greater accomplishment minted in full by a tremendous vocalization by Kevin Parker, from Tame Impala. May be that Pond has brought quite a few elements from Foxygen together as these ones seem to come up sparkling defined in Man It Feels Like Space Again, the last title of the tracklist. Full Review »